Playing a young woman who moves from Ivory Coast to Paris with her two young sons, Lengronne then frustratingly fades from view in Léonor Serraille’s follow-up to Jeune Femme
In French, this film is called Un petit frère (“A little brother”), and for once it may be that a film’s English title is an improvement on the original. The fitful and fragmented second feature by Léonor Serraille is about a multi-tasking migrant from Ivory Coast and her two sons, whom we drop in on at intervals across 20 years or so, beginning in 1989.
★★★★☆This heart-wrenching French drama is epic in storytelling scope and laser-focused on the most minute emotional shifts of its deeply sympathetic characters.
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